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justice department have drafted a document saying the president has the legal authoritytousedronesthe american government is launching a new war some of this country's seventy five hundred drones may be about to take off with new targets in their sights the secrecy the lack of transparency and lack of oversight of the drone program the issue of drones and extra judicial killings has become so mainstream that even former defense secretary robert gates is speaking out about ways to make the program more palatable over the weekend he came out in support of a special independent court to evaluate the necessity of any given drone strike meanwhile lawmakers and civilians alike are demanding more oversight for the drone program almost ten years after it started nonetheless so for the latest on this issue i'm joined now by christopher swift in studio he's an adjunct professor at national security studies at georgetown university thank you for joining me tonight and let's let's start with this this recent development coming out of robert gates he says an independent special court to kind o

justice department have drafted a document saying the president has the legal authority to use drones the american government is launching a new war some of this country's seventy five hundred drones may be about to take off with new targets in their sights the secrecy the lack of transparency and lack of oversight of the drone program the issue of drones and extra judicial killings has become so mainstream that even former defense secretary robert gates is speaking out about ways to make the...

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brett for that 100% factually accurate reporting. somebody is always in our "war room."checkusoutonline at dp@danpink.com check out our facebook and twitter. have a great night. [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> now welcome to "the young turks." we have a fantastic show for you today. i'm going to be joined by ana kasparian in just a bit. we'll look at a tragedy that happened over the weekend. it is an unthinkable thing that happened to the author of american sniper. but what a shooting range be a good place to treat someone with ptsd. >> he cared so much about helping other veterans. >> the police believe he was tryiyi t to o hehelp himimtt the gun range outside of dallas. >> maybe that's why they were at the range for some type of therapy. >> and leon panetta is on his farewell tour as defense secretary. he's now saying that drones is a moral decision. >> as a catholic i remember when i first became director of the c.i.a. and realized i was making life-and-death decisions. >> and it was the super bowl with famous super bowl ads and even jeep got in the game this year. [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> a

brett for that 100% factually accurate reporting. somebody is always in our "war room." check us out online at dp@danpink.com check out our facebook and twitter. have a great night. [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> now welcome to "the young turks." we have a fantastic show for you today. i'm going to be joined by ana kasparian in just a bit. we'll look at a tragedy that happened over the weekend. it is an unthinkable thing that happened to the author of american sniper. but what...

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about a dead jordanian? zarqawi's legacy remainswithustoday.the terrorists who this month attacked a natural gas facility in algeria, al qaeda and the islamic -- they almost worship of -- worship abu musab al- zarqawi. he is a more popular icon even then osama bin laden. the man who carried out and planned the attack in algeria is a self-described devotee of zarqawi. he sees himself as very much an acolyte of the late zarqawi. al qaeda in iraq has produced an offshoot, the al-musra front. he may be dead, but he is still with us. i would like to ask for your impressions of zarqawi, looking back now. how serious and dangerous a figure he was half a decade ago. why he was at the top of the list of people to go after during the war on iraq. >> it is a pleasure. i am a devotee of mike o'hanlon and a friend for a long time. thanks for being here. it is great to see you, bruce, one of my heroes in terms of intelligence. to be interrogated by the cia -- i will try not to break. [laughter] abu musab al-zarqawi was from a lower middle class background. he became radicalized while in

about a dead jordanian? zarqawi's legacy remains with us today. the terrorists who this month attacked a natural gas facility in algeria, al qaeda and the islamic -- they almost worship of -- worship abu musab al- zarqawi. he is a more popular icon even then osama bin laden. the man who carried out and planned the attack in algeria is a self-described devotee of zarqawi. he sees himself as very much an acolyte of the late zarqawi. al qaeda in iraq has produced an offshoot, the al-musra front....

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each other, that is a big opportunityforus. >>the future of consumer technology with samsung vice president for strategy david steel from this year's consumer electronics show. monday night on a c-span2. rex british prime minister david cameron took questions from members of the house of commons during his weekly question time session on the state of the british economy, housing benefits, and the passing of the same sex marriage failed. on tuesday, members voted overwhelmingly in favor of the bill, 400-175. this is just over 30 minutes. >> to the prime minister. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others, and in addition to my duties i shall have further such meetings later today. >> thanking my right honorable friend to that answer, and having given the honorable friend notice -- particularly fair and transparent, and modern, can my right honorable friend say that in response to the many concerns in yesterday's debate, that civil partnerships are open to heterosexual couples on an equal basis with homosexual couples? >> i am grateful to my wo

each other, that is a big opportunity for us. >> the future of consumer technology with samsung vice president for strategy david steel from this year's consumer electronics show. monday night on a c-span2. rex british prime minister david cameron took questions from members of the house of commons during his weekly question time session on the state of the british economy, housing benefits, and the passing of the same sex marriage failed. on tuesday, members voted overwhelmingly in...

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c.i.a. anyway. he said over the last four years, the american people havegottenusedtohow right wing i am, so will go along with my pick. the question is will the senate. >> we'll ask the police to please remove this woman. if you would remove that individual please, as quickly as you can. thank you. >> kathy and my brother, tom. >> i speak for the mothers -- >> all right, we will stop again. all right. >> pakistan, somalia. if you don't know who they are i have a list of all the names. >> we're going to halt the hearing. i'm going to ask that the room be cleared and that they not be permitted to come back in. >> cenk: way to get them. senator feinstein spent a lot of the hearing defending john brennan, talking about the so-called american citizen al awlkai. he was a u.s. citizen you. might not like the guy but he was a u.s. citizen. feinstein said it's no big deal that we killed them and if you knew what we know. yeah, why don't you share. why don't you ask john bran anyone who's in front of you going to be the next head of the c.i.a. if you vote for him, what evidence did you

c.i.a. anyway. he said over the last four years, the american people have gotten used to how right wing i am, so will go along with my pick. the question is will the senate. >> we'll ask the police to please remove this woman. if you would remove that individual please, as quickly as you can. thank you. >> kathy and my brother, tom. >> i speak for the mothers -- >> all right, we will stop again. all right. >> pakistan, somalia. if you don't know who they are i...

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al jazeera they arenotusedfortorture. plus, friends are trying to save one theme from financial ruin. -- stands are trying to save one team from financial ruin. -- fans are trying to save one team from financial ruin. castro, the man who led the cuban revolution step down as president in 2008 because of ill health. the election is expected to head rose castro another term. -- raul pastor another term. >> on sunday he wanted to cast his ballot early in the morning. he said the elections are an important part of of holding the revolution. >> i remember well the days of capitalism, how rough it was for us. there was no mercy. the revolution has given me everything. >> cubans heading to the polls to vote. the main legislative body has 612 seats, and there were 612 candidates. this began last year when cubans have their only chance to choose between candidates. conditions later narrowed down the list to 612. they will convene on february 4 and are expected to name raul castro for president for another four years. the legislators are younger. there are now more women and cubans of afr

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where it has never been. >>joinusaswe explore today's most critical global issues.joinusforgreat decisions. >> great decisions is produced by the foreign policy association, inspiring americans to learn more about the world. sponsorship of great decisions is provided by credit suisse, eni, the hurford foundation, and pricewaterhousecoopers llp. >> coming up next, the intervention calculation. (instrumental music) >> historically the u.s. leaned heavily on strategic interventions to help counter the influence of communism. >> the reagan doctrine was a notion that we would support those that sought to oppose soviet domination. >> during the cold war there was a polarized world - there was the soviet union, there was the united states and a lot of our interventions were used to block the advance of communism, and so very ideological basis for our, our interventions. >> and the u.s. has long retained the power to intervene at will. >> the united states has the capability, military capability, the power, literally the sort of capability to get things done. in addition it has the

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theusinterventioneven if you go back to nine eleven and new york which triggered the afghanistan war it was al qaida that. ships in. in. this were actually started. the stability in somalia which led to piracy so what some people would call intervention as a result of jihadist terrorist act. it's not the other way around ok you wouldn't say molly was an example of that though would you. well mally value was a classic example like afghanistan somalia yemen where you have if you have a snake problem. spirit and the central government did not respond you have a very large vast space with with sort of weak asunta low sort of here then you have military you've already admitted to me in mali it was you know i just it's. exemplar to cool and that is in. in order to sort of learn from that it's not afghanistan and somalia and so on you have to rush to fill that vacuum up fortunately the only sort of reasonable theory and power with democratic accountability that had bases in the region with the french i'm. not i'm not into the french neither the eight hundred ma is. perfectly i mean the

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usefulinthe sense of its fair and transparent, and it's also very modern, cannot right honorable friend say that in response to the many concerns expressed in yesterday's debate will be ensure that civil partnerships are open to heterosexual couples on an equal basis with homosexual couples? >> i'm very grateful to my honorable friend, and also for giving me notice of his question. i listen carefully to what he says but, frankly, i'm a marriage man. i'm a great supporter of marriage. i want to promote marriage, defend marriage, encourage marriage. in the great thing about last night's vote is that today people who love each other will now be able to get married and i think that's important advance. i think we should be promoting marriage rather than looking at any other way of weakening it. >> ed miliband. [shouting] >> mr. speaker, i want to ask the prime minister about the bedroom back. allison has 18 year-old twin sons were both in the army. the prime ministers bedroom packed means well her sons are away, she would charge more for the bedroom? she says i resent the fact that both my

useful in the sense of its fair and transparent, and it's also very modern, cannot right honorable friend say that in response to the many concerns expressed in yesterday's debate will be ensure that civil partnerships are open to heterosexual couples on an equal basis with homosexual couples? >> i'm very grateful to my honorable friend, and also for giving me notice of his question. i listen carefully to what he says but, frankly, i'm a marriage man. i'm a great supporter of marriage. i...

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thought that the challenge the legitimacy of governments that. whentheusinterventioneven if you go back to nine eleven and new york which triggered the afghanistan war it was al qaida that. blew up. ships in aid in the am and it was you had this who actually started well the instability in somalia which led to piracy so what some people would call intervention came as a result of jihadist terrorist attacks not the other way around ok you wouldn't say mali was an example of that though would you. well mally malley was a classic example like afghanistan somalia and yemen where you have if you have nic problem. and the central government did not respond you have a very large vast space with with sort of weak asunta law sort of here then you have military you've already admitted we in mali it was you know i just it's. exemplar to that coup and that is in. in order to sort of learn from that it's not going to afghanistan and somalia and so on you have to rush to fill that vacuum up fortunately the only sort of reasonable three in power with democratic accountability that have bases i

thought that the challenge the legitimacy of governments that. when the us intervention even if you go back to nine eleven and new york which triggered the afghanistan war it was al qaida that. blew up. ships in aid in the am and it was you had this who actually started well the instability in somalia which led to piracy so what some people would call intervention came as a result of jihadist terrorist attacks not the other way around ok you wouldn't say mali was an example of that though...

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started the. most of the the challenge the legitimacy of governments. whentheusinterventioneven if you go back to nine eleven and new york which triggered the war it was al qaida that. chips and aid in the am and it was these you had this were actually started prior to the instability in somalia which lead to piracy so what some people would call intervention came as a result of jihadist terrorist attacks not the other way around ok you wouldn't say mali was an example of that though would you. malley was a classic example like afghanistan somalia and yemen where you have if you have a snake problem in. a spree and the central government did not respond store you have a very large vast space with. sort of weak asunta low sort of here then you have a military you've already admitted to me in mali because you know i just it's. exemplar to that coup and that is in. the end so in order to sort of learn from the listen again and again this down and somalia and so on you have to rush to fill that vacuum and fortunately the only sort of reasonable theory and power with democratic accounta

started the. most of the the challenge the legitimacy of governments. when the us intervention even if you go back to nine eleven and new york which triggered the war it was al qaida that. chips and aid in the am and it was these you had this were actually started prior to the instability in somalia which lead to piracy so what some people would call intervention came as a result of jihadist terrorist attacks not the other way around ok you wouldn't say mali was an example of that though would...

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actually started the. most of the the challenge the legitimacy of governments. whentheusinterventioneven if you go back to nine eleven and new york which triggered the afghanistan war it was al qaida that. chips in the seats over eight in the am and it was you had this or actually started playing well the stability in somalia which they did to piracy so what some people would call intervention came as a result of jihadist terrorist attacks not the other way around ok you wouldn't say mali was an example of that though would you. malley was a classic example like afghanistan somalia and yemen where you have if you have a snake problem. spirit and the central government did notice spawns two you have a very large vast space with with sort of weak asunta loss already and then you have a military you've already admitted to me in mali because you know i just it's. exemplar to that coup and that is in. the end so in order to sort of learn from that it's not going to afghanistan and somalia and so on you have to rush to fill that vacuum up fortunately the only sort of reasonab

actually started the. most of the the challenge the legitimacy of governments. when the us intervention even if you go back to nine eleven and new york which triggered the afghanistan war it was al qaida that. chips in the seats over eight in the am and it was you had this or actually started playing well the stability in somalia which they did to piracy so what some people would call intervention came as a result of jihadist terrorist attacks not the other way around ok you wouldn't say mali...

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pakistan andwalkedusthroughthe different tribes. >> it is the essential piece of the study because waziristan is one of the most targeted places on earth. one of them most high and the tribal places an onerous never completely conquered it is part of pakistan but they maintain their own dependence with pride and tradition. the ordinary tribes have sound pledge yourself in the tribeca it in their skin and walkabout one day thrown about by helicopters and up to hillary than suicide bombers than travels in the fourth day by a drone strikes and incomplete desperation huge chunks of was there is stand live in the just to refugee and every day is like 9/11. go back to the man in the village would never the debate of drones there is a dimension often missing with the impact is devastating and has been documented by stanford and new york univ. >> host: you mentioned drones in your book talks about the drone situation in washington. what is the view of drones? >> you use the word debate it is just beginning but the debate has to opposing points of view in america you only hear one s

pakistan and walked us through the different tribes. >> it is the essential piece of the study because waziristan is one of the most targeted places on earth. one of them most high and the tribal places an onerous never completely conquered it is part of pakistan but they maintain their own dependence with pride and tradition. the ordinary tribes have sound pledge yourself in the tribeca it in their skin and walkabout one day thrown about by helicopters and up to hillary than suicide...

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to 20 women died in childbirth every year so. she went to two years of training andcostusabout$800 and her pay is just over a dollar a day and not one women has died since she's come back and is working there. and now i'll jump forward a bit. when we get hundreds of letters in our office and e-mails and some of the most powerful e-mails are those from our armed forces serving in afghanistan and sometimes iraq. recently i got an e-mail from a colonel. his first name is kris. he's the commander of the saber forces called,fob. ford operating base in north star province in eastern afghanistan. one of the most difficult and dangerous areas to serve. he wrote to me first as a commander but also as a father and a husband and told me a little bit about how difficult it was and then he said, you know, he had all his guys read three cup office tea and really without education, whatever we do here is in vain. it's education is what we determined if these young men and women become literate patriots or illiterate terrorists and the stakes could not be higher. this comes from a united stat

to 20 women died in childbirth every year so. she went to two years of training and cost us about $800 and her pay is just over a dollar a day and not one women has died since she's come back and is working there. and now i'll jump forward a bit. when we get hundreds of letters in our office and e-mails and some of the most powerful e-mails are those from our armed forces serving in afghanistan and sometimes iraq. recently i got an e-mail from a colonel. his first name is kris. he's the...

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useinthe case of imminent danger but imminence no longer means imminence. meaning klingons can be called imminent. >> watching john brennan dodge that question about waterboarding today was nothing short of torture. today is the birthday of the late charles dickens, laura ingalls wilder and chris rock and on this date 48 years ago the beatles arrived in america ushering an era of rock n' roll gratins that lasted until 1990 when rock n' roll died when rolling stone called new kids on the block the new fab five. never forget this is "viewpoint." >> john: geek, i'm john fuglesang. this is "viewpoint." the g.o.p. strategist and commentator once known as bush's brain, they're giving karl rove an aneurysm. oh and dick clark -- dick cavett is here tonight. dick clark was not available. we'll be joined by dick in the second half of the show. first, the man president obama nominated to run the c.i.a., counter-terrorism adviser john brennan spent quality time with the senate intelligence committee today as they considered his qualifications to become our nation's top spy. he faced tough que

use in the case of imminent danger but imminence no longer means imminence. meaning klingons can be called imminent. >> watching john brennan dodge that question about waterboarding today was nothing short of torture. today is the birthday of the late charles dickens, laura ingalls wilder and chris rock and on this date 48 years ago the beatles arrived in america ushering an era of rock n' roll gratins that lasted until 1990 when rock n' roll died when rolling stone called new kids on...

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here. authorities have been keeping in contactwithusatthis hour, the storm is coming in. temperatures have dropped down into the 20s. they are expected to be in the low 20s tonight. it is very cold. it's dark. the fog is coming in. all of these things make this search more tedious. there are 130 officers going door to door in an area not far from where that truck was found. they will continually expand that search out. i asked if they believe he is is still there. they have no reason to believe he has left the big bear area. however, they have no reason to believe he hasn't found a house. there are cabins up there. there are homes up there. people have homes that go up there on the weekends and that type of thing. they are going to look for those homes for signs of forced entry and at the same time, go to each person's house. people who live there currently full time are told to lock their doors, lock their wind oh stay inside. we have heard a number of reports of people who have their own weapons legally that have those at hand. this man has said in his manifesto and by

here. authorities have been keeping in contact with us at this hour, the storm is coming in. temperatures have dropped down into the 20s. they are expected to be in the low 20s tonight. it is very cold. it's dark. the fog is coming in. all of these things make this search more tedious. there are 130 officers going door to door in an area not far from where that truck was found. they will continually expand that search out. i asked if they believe he is is still there. they have no reason to...

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whousethem.and the protests are so bad that a chinese man made the simple mistake of driving a japanese car in a chai neads city of chian and was beat sewn badly he is paralyzed. this week, a chinese minister accused a japanese vessel of target i targeting the radar on a japanese ship off of the islands, but the chinese officials are disputing it happened. now think about this, the world's second and the third largest economies playing chicken in the pacific over a dispute of uninhabited islands, but if this diplomatic disagreement were to escalate into a military obligation, the united states would be obligated by the 52-year-old treaty obligation to help the sovereignty of japan, and does that mean that north korea would come to the aid of china, but it is a quaint and admittedly alarmist experiment, because that is not how foreign wars are conducted anymore. next month marks the 10-year invasion of iraq, and the last conflict that we can think of conventional war that claimed the lives of more than 4,000 americans and by some counts more than 110,000 iraqis, all because of t

who use them. and the protests are so bad that a chinese man made the simple mistake of driving a japanese car in a chai neads city of chian and was beat sewn badly he is paralyzed. this week, a chinese minister accused a japanese vessel of target i targeting the radar on a japanese ship off of the islands, but the chinese officials are disputing it happened. now think about this, the world's second and the third largest economies playing chicken in the pacific over a dispute of uninhabited...

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questions on the role in bushadministration'suseoftorture and for those controversial leaks reportedly from the obama white house. in his questionnaire for the senate committee, brennan admits he was interviewed about, quote, possible unauthorized disclosures of information to reporters about cyberattacks against iran and possible unauthorized disclosures of information to reporters about a foiled bomb plot tied to al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. let's bring in the political panel, chris anders, senior legislative counsel and michael isikoff. michael, a lot happened certainly since you broke that news of what was in this memo including this move by the white house. what do we make of at least what we're seeing right before bren anna nicole's confirmation hearing in regards to the white house's latest move here? >> well, first of all, it was an important step that the white house took because until last night, the official position of the administration is they couldn't even confirm or deny the existence of such a memo. in fact, they said that it's in and of itself was a c

questions on the role in bush administration's use of torture and for those controversial leaks reportedly from the obama white house. in his questionnaire for the senate committee, brennan admits he was interviewed about, quote, possible unauthorized disclosures of information to reporters about cyberattacks against iran and possible unauthorized disclosures of information to reporters about a foiled bomb plot tied to al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. let's bring in the political panel,...

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outlines why they believe they have the legal thoort authoritytouseforce.at thursday's confirmation hearings for his nomination to head up the cia, white house counterterrorism director raised questions about the memo and the programs it helps justify. >> your view seems to be that even if we could save american lives by containing more american terrorists by using traditional techniques it would be beer to kill them with a drone or let them go free than to detain them. could you explain that argument? >> is your testimony today that the huge increase in the numb beer of lethal strikes has no connection to the change in the obama administration's detention policy? >> do you believe that the president should provide an individual american with the opportunity to surrender before killing them? >> no topic that we discuss regularly on the show invites quite the level of backlash on the social media as the kill list and drones. given the often disingenuous criticism the president has faced i can understand why dechl carats view it with cynicism suddenly expressed by conservatives this w

outlines why they believe they have the legal thoort authority to use force. at thursday's confirmation hearings for his nomination to head up the cia, white house counterterrorism director raised questions about the memo and the programs it helps justify. >> your view seems to be that even if we could save american lives by containing more american terrorists by using traditional techniques it would be beer to kill them with a drone or let them go free than to detain them. could you...

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comestousfromapril of 2012 when democratic senator bob menendez shat down with the interview of new jersey, and the secret service scandal was on, and the allegations now facing the embattled new jersey lawmaker we thought we h'd play for you his response, let's cue up this hypo >> one was killed and another one is in very serious condition. from that point on, he has not been found. however, his truck was found, burned out, up in big bear, about a 60-mile drive or so from here. authorities have been keeping in contact with us at this hour, the storm is coming in. temperatures have dropped down into the 20s. they are expected to be in the low 20s tonight. it is very cold. it's dark. the fog is coming in. all of these things make this search more tedious. there are 130 officers going door to door in an area not far from where that truck was found. they will continually expand that search out. i asked if they believe he is is still there. they have no reason to believe he has left the big bear area. however, they have no reason to believe he hasn't found a house. there are cabins

comes to us from april of 2012 when democratic senator bob menendez shat down with the interview of new jersey, and the secret service scandal was on, and the allegations now facing the embattled new jersey lawmaker we thought we h'd play for you his response, let's cue up this hypo >> one was killed and another one is in very serious condition. from that point on, he has not been found. however, his truck was found, burned out, up in big bear, about a 60-mile drive or so from here....

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onceusedto.>> it traveled at a speed of 54,000 kilometers per hour and struck with the force of an atomic bomb. a meteor has crashed into the region of russia, injuring more than 1000 people. the impact would have devastated a more inhabited area. >> a massive a ball of fire and smoke tearing across a mid morning sky. this was the site seen by many and chelyabinsk, as they've made their way to work and to their children to school. there was no warning of the meteorite. using their mobile phones, people found the trail of smoke. -- filmed the trail of smoke. and then, a sonic boom would set off car alarms and smashed windows. >> there was a flash of light. a loud blast happened. people started to panic. somebody screamed, the end of the earth. it reminded me of action movies. the light was very bright. the light lasted for three seconds. >> hundreds of people were injured, mostly by fragments of flying glass. several are in critical condition. the region that lies 1,500 kilometers east of moscow. it is were the first soviet plutonium bomb was developed. many residents thought thi

once used to. >> it traveled at a speed of 54,000 kilometers per hour and struck with the force of an atomic bomb. a meteor has crashed into the region of russia, injuring more than 1000 people. the impact would have devastated a more inhabited area. >> a massive a ball of fire and smoke tearing across a mid morning sky. this was the site seen by many and chelyabinsk, as they've made their way to work and to their children to school. there was no warning of the meteorite. using...

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military is behind this. >> beyond a shadow of a doubt.theyusetheirmilitary to steal intellectual property from american businesses, european businesses, repurpose it and compete in the international market against the united states. it's unprecedented. this has never happened in the history of the world, where one nation steals the intellectual property to repurpose to illegally compete against the country. it's getting worse, why, there's no consequence for it. >> the "new york times" report that quoted this troop, traced this latest outbreak of cyber warfare to a warehouse. that's a building, a unit owned by the pla. >> companies have been unwilling to talk about it. that is changing now? >> it is. they're dealing with a very difficult, frankly a gangster regime. no one wants to make them unhappy. george, last june, david sanger in the "new york times" rang a story from his first months in office, president obama secretly ordered attacks of computer attacks that ran iran's nuclear enrichment facilitiefacilities. we have participated in cyber sabotage. and it turns out, what if

military is behind this. >> beyond a shadow of a doubt. they use their military to steal intellectual property from american businesses, european businesses, repurpose it and compete in the international market against the united states. it's unprecedented. this has never happened in the history of the world, where one nation steals the intellectual property to repurpose to illegally compete against the country. it's getting worse, why, there's no consequence for it. >> the...

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russian capital you're watching our do you with me to bomb would say it's good to have youwithusthismorning. and islamists a rebel group is claiming responsibility for ongoing violence in models in northern city of death after gunmen launched a surprise guerrilla attack earlier the city was rocked by two suicide bombings however france maintains a military campaign in mali to force out a slight islamist is almost complete local correspondent gonzalo wants reports. the situation in mali is obviously going to have a gruesome ending there are more than enough indications of that last friday the country was shaken by the very first terrorist attack in its history according to the witness report of what was carried out by a fifteen year old suicide bomber of arab descent the bomber was the only one killed after the detonation of a few hours later responsibility for the attack was claimed by the most of the how this one thing to remember here is that this is a bass desert territory and therefore it is very difficult to control this attack is just another example confirming that despi

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lives that have been touched literally around the world and for having chondajoinusislike icing on the cake. her life personifies our message that even good christian women have struggles. god is faithful and in the end, there's always something to laugh about. thanks to you our viewers and supporters for hanging in there with us. you are all aspiring women, and we believe the best is yet to come. see you next time! >> well, that's a song about menopause and you forgot the words! Ñ >> george: today on christian world news, arrested in libya. four christian workers are in custody for preaching the gospel. >> wendy: plus, syrian refugees take shelter in jordan, and find compassion from a christian ministry. >> george: and it is the adventure of a lifetime. this woman's worldwide wait to bring the gospel to the law. ♪ >> george: four christians sit behind bars in the north african nation of libya. hello, everyone, i'm george thomas. >> wendy: and i'm wendy griffith. libyan officials say the foreign missionaries are accused of distributing christian literature. as gary lane repor

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, we heard a loud explosion. and then we saw a lot of smoke rightbehindus. ourfirst giving was it could not be a balloon, but it turned out unfortunately to be this tragic accident. >> a balloon ride over some of egypt's most famous site are still a popular attraction. the stringent new state controls last year were put into place following a string of accidents. but other passengers have spoken of their concerns about the safety of these flights. >> there was a limited explanation as to what was going on at the time. we were fairly close to the trees below us. that made it quite interesting experience for those in the basket. experience for those in the basket. >> it is thought that the gas line has exploded while the balloon was 1,000 feet up. it is a lasting tragedy for the families of the dead. >> in rome, the word ungovernable seemed to capture the state of the country's politics after elections, in which no party or election -- or coalition emerged with an outright majority. silvio berlusconi did almost as well as pier luigi tristani -- but no one has control over both house

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. most of the the challenge the legitimacy of governments. whentheusinterventioneven if you go back to nine eleven and new york which triggered the afghanistan war it was al qaida that. it's. ships in aid in the am and it was these you had this were actually started prior to the instability in somalia which lead to piracy so what some people would call intervention came as a result of jihadist terrorist attacks not the other way around ok you wouldn't say mali was an example of that though would you. malley was a classic example like afghanistan somalia and yemen where you have if you have a snake problem is. a spree that the central government did not a sponsor you have a very large vast space with with with sort of weak asunta law sort of here then you have a military coup already admitted me in mali was you know i just it's. it seems clotted the coup and that is in. the end so in order to sort of learn from the listen again afghanistan and somalia and so on you have to rush to fill that vacuum up fortunately the only sort of reasonable three in power with democratic accounta

. most of the the challenge the legitimacy of governments. when the us intervention even if you go back to nine eleven and new york which triggered the afghanistan war it was al qaida that. it's. ships in aid in the am and it was these you had this were actually started prior to the instability in somalia which lead to piracy so what some people would call intervention came as a result of jihadist terrorist attacks not the other way around ok you wouldn't say mali was an example of that though...

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policy that's on the one side on the other side the cia hadtoldusinternallyat the time that it was working what year was that that was in two thousand to two thousand and three they were telling us that it was working we now know from the inspector general's report that was released in the spring of two thousand and nine that that was a lie that the cia was lying even to those of us inside the cia and i think it was just to protect themselves and to protect the policy but it never worked did you have a personal experience related to torture where you personally involved in torture no thank god i was never a person involved in torture when i returned from pakistan in the early summer of two thousand and two where i had been chief of counterterrorism operations i was asked by a senior officer in the cia's counterterrorist center if i wanted to be trained in in the use of these torture techniques and i said no i had a moral problem with it and i didn't want to be associated with it there were fourteen of us at the time who were. made the offer. two of us said no and then one of us not

policy that's on the one side on the other side the cia had told us internally at the time that it was working what year was that that was in two thousand to two thousand and three they were telling us that it was working we now know from the inspector general's report that was released in the spring of two thousand and nine that that was a lie that the cia was lying even to those of us inside the cia and i think it was just to protect themselves and to protect the policy but it never worked...

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better protection and the interior ministertellsusthegovernment is doing everything it can. hello. you're watching al-jazeera live from london. also coming up -- >> gunmen have kidnapped seven foreign workers in the northern states of nigeria. >> cousin marking its sixth birthday as an independent state. we talk about the challenges they face -- kosovo marking its sixth birthday. catholicse blesses for the first time since announcing his resignation. >> hello and thank you for joining us. the $1 million reward offered for the capture of a group carrying out a deadly attack in pakistan. more than 80 people killed in an explosion in a busy area. shias there, and those across pakistan, are demanding the government do more to stop the attacks. >> a strong message. stop the killing of shias. this is in response to saturday's bombing targeted a shia bazaar. they're giving them 48 hours to arrest the culprits before they take action. >> we want to register our protests. we demanded to noticed of the blasts. they need to find those responsible for such acts of terrorism. >> the group has

better protection and the interior minister tells us the government is doing everything it can. hello. you're watching al-jazeera live from london. also coming up -- >> gunmen have kidnapped seven foreign workers in the northern states of nigeria. >> cousin marking its sixth birthday as an independent state. we talk about the challenges they face -- kosovo marking its sixth birthday. catholicse blesses for the first time since announcing his resignation. >> hello and thank...

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the challenge the legitimacy of governments there. whentheusinterventioneven if you go back to nine eleven and new york which triggered the afghanistan war it was al qaida that. it's. ships in aid in the am and it was you had this to actually start the pilot the stability in somalia which lead to piracy so what some people would call intervention came as a result of jihadist terrorist attacks not the other way around ok you wouldn't say mali was an example of that though would you. well mally malley was a classic example like afghanistan somalia and yemen where you have if you have a snake problem is. a spree that the central government did not respond still you have a very large vast space with with sort of weak asunta law sort of here then you have military you've already admitted we in mali it was you know i just it's. it seems clotted that coup and that is in. in so in order to sort of learn from that it's not going to afghanistan and somalia and so on you have to rush to fill that vacuum up fortunately the only sort of reasonable three in power with democratic accountabili

the challenge the legitimacy of governments there. when the us intervention even if you go back to nine eleven and new york which triggered the afghanistan war it was al qaida that. it's. ships in aid in the am and it was you had this to actually start the pilot the stability in somalia which lead to piracy so what some people would call intervention came as a result of jihadist terrorist attacks not the other way around ok you wouldn't say mali was an example of that though would you. well...

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make a profit and 2/3 are pre chosen by the publisher. we'd like to put our marketing armbehindusbutyour having to fight tear riz m to this. since i grew up in africa and worked pakistan for many years you never settle a deal without driving a hard bargain so i said if the hard cover doesn't do well, i'd like the subtitle changed later on for the paper back. julia and our other board relently pounded away month after month. i was in pakistan of december of 2006 and there was a new editor on the book and they said they decided to change the title to one man's mission to promote peace. the hard cover didn't do that well. sold 20,000 copies. while the paper back came out on january 30th of this year and since out it's been on the new york times best seller selling over 700,000 copies now. and it's one man's mission to promote peace. and they're still baffleed manhattan because they're scratching their heads the first month because there's only - well no big city book editor did it so to be a best seller you need new york times or the chronicle or boston globes to give you good book

make a profit and 2/3 are pre chosen by the publisher. we'd like to put our marketing arm behind us but your having to fight tear riz m to this. since i grew up in africa and worked pakistan for many years you never settle a deal without driving a hard bargain so i said if the hard cover doesn't do well, i'd like the subtitle changed later on for the paper back. julia and our other board relently pounded away month after month. i was in pakistan of december of 2006 and there was a new editor...

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stimulus plan. we are asking for you togiveusyourview. welcome to this addition of the washington journal. we want to know from you what is your view of the economic recovery the president talked about four years ago. here are the numbers -- you can also reach out to us via social media. the address is on the screen. for twitter, the address is cspanwj. pan.book.com/c-spas or you can e-mail journal@c- span.org. we begin by talking about the speech that the president made four years ago in elkhart, indiana. it is part of the nbc news elkhart project. we will talk more about that. we want to talk to you about your view of the economic recovery. our first call comes from randy and new hampshire on our line for independence. caller: how are you guys this morning? things are going downhill fast. we are in this huge crisis. the recession is going on and on. we are lucky that we are not in worse shape in a severe depression. the banks keep doing business. things need to change fast. host: what kind of work do you do? caller: i am a diesel mechanic by trade but i now go to scho

stimulus plan. we are asking for you to give us your view. welcome to this addition of the washington journal. we want to know from you what is your view of the economic recovery the president talked about four years ago. here are the numbers -- you can also reach out to us via social media. the address is on the screen. for twitter, the address is cspanwj. pan.book.com/c-spas or you can e-mail journal@c- span.org. we begin by talking about the speech that the president made four years ago in...

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religious. it is a it is not religious. we can extend it as needed. it shouldmakeusbemore urgent. we find that when we bring urgency to almost any discussion inside of the u.s. government is a constructive thing to do. >> there are a number of areas in the u.s. government that look at failed and failing state. the undersecretary for political affairs has that responsibility. dns see used to chair and -- the nsc used to chair a committee. how does cso play into this? >> we try to work with everyone that you mentioned. we want to be aggregators of talent and good work that has gone on. for example, something as simple as analytics, we have a metadata analyst in our shop now, but we want him to be an aggregator of aggregators. i keep saying you have to be made silver on steroids -- nate silver on steroids. we cannot run enough staff to review and it turns out the intelligence community loves being called by the state department. they are flattered by it. they want their work respected and called upon. it is not hard. often times, in the military community, there might have been time

religious. it is a it is not religious. we can extend it as needed. it should make us be more urgent. we find that when we bring urgency to almost any discussion inside of the u.s. government is a constructive thing to do. >> there are a number of areas in the u.s. government that look at failed and failing state. the undersecretary for political affairs has that responsibility. dns see used to chair and -- the nsc used to chair a committee. how does cso play into this? >> we try...

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aerial surveillance of society doestheuseofdrones make citizen safer what about the issues of privacy and civil liberties could armed drone soon one day be part of our everyday life and who profits from these intrusive ice in the sky. to cross drone surveillance i'm joined by medea benjamin in washington she is a co-founder of code pink and author of drone warfare also in washington we have ray mcgovern he is a co-founder of veteran intelligence professionals for sanity and to endow us we cross to christopher jencks he is director of the criminal justice clinic and assistant professor of law at s.m.u. deadman school of law or at folks in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want but if i go to you first in washington when i read orwell's one thousand nine hundred four i didn't see drones in it but i think he would have been happy if they had been. well i certainly agree with you there i think the potential of having these eyes in the sky twenty four seven spying on us could have the potential of turning the u.s. into a surveillance society that would prove family chan

aerial surveillance of society does the use of drones make citizen safer what about the issues of privacy and civil liberties could armed drone soon one day be part of our everyday life and who profits from these intrusive ice in the sky. to cross drone surveillance i'm joined by medea benjamin in washington she is a co-founder of code pink and author of drone warfare also in washington we have ray mcgovern he is a co-founder of veteran intelligence professionals for sanity and to endow us we...

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testing with them togiveusabetter idea of just what india they consider what it can be like i guess we're going to get any areas of him like you know whether martin salem had information in an austrian to have us a better luck of what to say or sims piece by piece sort she's a limb to train is coming together continues around the clock but with a year to go things are shaping up fast and the company in charge of construction has a simple message despite building everything from scratch russia will be ready for you. we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start training facilities are ready practically all of them of host to test competitions all hotels and olympic villages are in the final phase of can. struction are being referred and furnished their share jewels to open in the autumn we plan to complete construction long before the end of the year so personal can train and managers can gain experience in providing a good service but achieving this goal has come at a staggering price hosting these games is costing around fifty billion dollars making them the most e

testing with them to give us a better idea of just what india they consider what it can be like i guess we're going to get any areas of him like you know whether martin salem had information in an austrian to have us a better luck of what to say or sims piece by piece sort she's a limb to train is coming together continues around the clock but with a year to go things are shaping up fast and the company in charge of construction has a simple message despite building everything from scratch...

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giveusabetter idea of just what it takes if it can appear like i didn't get any areas of him out there either martin salem had information in the dossier to have us a better luck of what the state of sims a spy face so she's a limp the jury is coming together would continue surround the call but with a year to go things are shaping up with company in charge of construction has a simple message despite building everything from scratch russia will be ready for you. we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start their training facilities are ready practically all of them opposed to test competitions all hotels in the olympic villages are in the final phases. instruction for being refurbished and furnished the show jewels to open in the also being able to complete construction long before the end of the year so personal can train and managers can gain experience in providing a good service but it cheating this goal has come at a staggering price hosting these games is costing around fifty billion dollars making them the most expensive elim pick history they cost ten t

give us a better idea of just what it takes if it can appear like i didn't get any areas of him out there either martin salem had information in the dossier to have us a better luck of what the state of sims a spy face so she's a limp the jury is coming together would continue surround the call but with a year to go things are shaping up with company in charge of construction has a simple message despite building everything from scratch russia will be ready for you. we plan to introduce all...